story: Representative democracy (also indirect democracy, representative republic, or psephocracy) is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy. Nearly all modern Western-style democracies are types of representative democracies; for example, the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, Ireland is a unitary parliamentary republic, and the United States is a federal republic. 
  
  It is an element of both the parliamentary and the presidential systems of government and is typically used in a lower chamber such as the House of Commons (United Kingdom) or Dáil Éireann (Republic of Ireland), and may be curtailed by constitutional constraints such as an upper chamber. It has been described by some political theorists including Robert A. Dahl, Gregory Houston and Ian Liebenberg as polyarchy. In it the power is in the hands of the elected representatives who are elected by the people in elections. 
  
  Representatives are elected by the public, as in national elections for the national legislature. Elected representatives may hold the power to select other representatives, presidents, or other officers of the government or of the legislature, as the Prime Minister in the latter case. (indirect representation). 
  
  The power of representatives is usually curtailed by a constitution (as in a constitutional democracy or a constitutional monarchy) or other measures to balance representative power:
questions: who are representatives elected by?
questions: does representative democracy have another name?
questions: what is it?
questions: Are there different types of representative democracy?
questions: do the UK and the USA share the same type?
questions: what type does the UK have?
questions: and what type does the USA have?
questions: How is power balanced?
questions: what principle is it based on?
questions: what type does Ireland have?
questions: Who has a house of commons?
questions: Who has a Dail Eireann?
questions: How many theorists are listed?
questions: is it usually used in the lower or upper chamber?
questions: is representative democracy the same as direct democracy?
answers: the public
answers: Representatives are elected by the public
answers: yes
answers: Representative democracy (also indirect democracy, representative republic, or psephocracy) 
answers: indirect democracy
answers: Representative democracy (also indirect democracy
answers: yes
answers: for example, the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, Ireland is a unitary parliamentary republic, and the United States is a federal republic. 
answers: no
answers:  United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy, Ireland is a unitary parliamentary republic, and the United States is a federal republic. 
  
answers: constitutional monarchy
answers:  the United Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy
answers: federal republic
answers: and the United States is a federal republic. 
  
answers: constitutional constraints
answers: curtailed by constitutional constraints such as an upper chamber
answers: elected officials representing a group of people
answers: founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people
answers: unitary parliamentary republic
answers:  Ireland is a unitary parliamentary republic
answers: United Kingdom
answers: House of Commons (United Kingdom) 
answers: Republic of Ireland
answers:  Dáil Éireann (Republic of Ireland)
answers: some political theorists including Robert A. Dahl, Gregory Houston and Ian Liebenberg
answers:  some political theorists including Robert A. Dahl, Gregory Houston and Ian Liebenberg
answers: lower
answers: is typically used in a lower chamber 
answers: no
answers:  as opposed to direct democracy.